Elizabeth Katz

Katz is a science communicator within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. She supports the promotion of various department-based research programs, including MDisability, MyVoice, MYHealth AREP, and U-M's Mixed Methods Program, as well as individual researchers’ work. Katz holds a master’s degree in public relations.

 

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Researchers develop enhanced communication framework for cancer clinics

Researchers have proposed an enhanced model of communication focusing not only on what is said in the clinic, but also nonverbal communication of the doctor and how doctors in turn interpret patients’ nonverbal cues. 
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Gaps seen in stillbirth bereavement care among U.S. hospitals

American hospitals vary greatly in what they offer to birthing parents when a stillbirth occurs during labor or delivery.
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Mental health, substance abuse treatment facilities don't provide communication access to Deaf, Hard of Hearing patients

These services, researchers found, were largely inaccessible to people who use sign language, discriminating against already ‘severely marginalized’ population in the United States.
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